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1: Ben Calhoun
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English - March 30, 2014 21:30 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Society & Culture Personal Journals radio public reporting journalism audio interview interviews longform writer intelligent Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ben Calhoun is a producer at This American Life.
"The nature of covering politics is one where often people don’t want to say to you the things that they are feeling or thinking. ... You can create the diorama of that action in a way that you couldn’t if you weren’t willing to make them a character — founded on things that they said and beliefs that you know they have — than they’ve done for you on tape."